Ashurbanipal 073 (Q003772)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 073 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003772 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap5 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [0:8] o i 1o i 1–o i 88 | On [my] fir[st campaign, I marched] to Maka[n] (Egypt) and Melu[ḫḫa (Ethiopia)]. Taharqa, the king of Egyp[t and Kush], (i 5) whose defeat Esarhaddon — king of A[ssyria, the father who had engendered me] — had brought about (and) [whose land he ruled over, forgot] the might of (the god) <Aš>š[ur, the goddess Ištar, and the great gods, my lords, and] trus[ted ...] ... [...] |
| Reverse Column i [0:4] r i' 1'1'–r i' 4'4' | [(thus) I achieved] vi[ctory. With] full [h]and(s), I returned [safel]y to Nineveh, my capital [city]. |
| Reverse Column i [4:5] r i' 5'5'–r i' 5'5' | (No translation possible) |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1 | ina maḫ-⸢re⸣-[e ger-ri-ia] | |
| 2 | a-na {kur}ma₂-⸢kan u {kur}me-luḫ⸣-[ḫa lu al-lik] | |
| 3 | {m}tar-qu-u MAN {kur}mu-⸢ṣur⸣ [u {kur}ku-u-si] | |
| 4 | ša {m}AN.ŠAR₂-PAP-AŠ MAN KUR ⸢AN⸣.[ŠAR₂{ki} AD DU₃-u-a] | |
| 5 | BAD₅.BAD₅-šu₂ iš-⸢ku-nu⸣ [i-be-lu KUR-su] | |
| 6 | da-na-an <AN>.⸢ŠAR₂⸣ {[d}15 u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia im-ši-ma] | |
| 7 | ⸢it⸣-ta-[kil ...] | |
| 8 | x x [...] | |
| r i' | ||
| 1' | [aš₂-ta-kan] ⸢li⸣-[i-tu] | |
| 2' | [it-ti] ⸢qa⸣-ti ma-li-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 3' | [šal]-⸢meš⸣ a-tu-ra a-na NINA{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 4' | [URU] EN-ti-ia | |
| 5' | [x x] | |
Sources & licences
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